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Help Person Go , Over The Top In The Mighty Seventh VOL. LXIV. $45,000 Remains In E Bond Quota For Person County Rites Held For Mrs. N. H. James Sunday Afternoon Roxboro Woman Dies Friday At Home Os Daughter. Funeral for Mrs. Nola Hobgood •lames, 69, of Roxboro, whose death occurred late Friday afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Rob ert Long. Charles Street, Roxboro. was held Sunday afternoon at four o'clock at Grace Methodist church by the Rev. C. G. McCarvcr, with interment in Burchw'ood cemetery. Mrs. James, wife of the late Charles G. James, had been ill with paralysis for eleven days. She was a daughter of the late James and Martha Young Hobgood, of Per son County. Survivors are one da ugh u. ■, Mrs. Long, of this city, two sons, Gaddis, of Portsmouth, Va„ and John of Roxboro, four brothers, Logan, Will and John Hobgood, all of Roxboro. H, H. Hobgood, Nashville, Tcnn., and one sister, Mrs. Lillian Lee, of Rox boro. Also surviving arc seven grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were nephews and flowerbcarers were nieces. The body will be taken to the church one hour before the service. o Leopold May AbdiiaieTfirdne In Few Days Hope Os Forming New Gov-j ernment Aparenlly Fails, i Brussels, Belgi u m, June 24. —A trusted source close to the Belgian ; Government said tonight that King Leopold's political maneuvers ap- ( parcntly had failed and that his 1 abdication was likely within a few days. 4iU|| This informant said Leopold's last j hope of forming a government was j Gangshof Van Der Mcrsch, chief j military prosecutor of Nazi collab- j orators, to whom the King had of fered the Belgian premiership. ' Van Der Mersch was said to have I gone to Salzburg, Austria, where the King is staying, to give his answer. He was said to hold the view that Leopold must renounce his throne for Belgian’s best interests. Paul Van Zeeland, one-time pre mier and at present high commis sioner for repatriation, declined to comment on rumors that he might j attempt to mediate the crisis. He 1 indicated keen concern and com- j merited simply: “I wish few weeks were already past.” The threat of a general strike by left-wing parties opposed to Leo pold's return still hung over the po lit.ial drama being enacted both in Austria, where the Monarch was re ported conferring with Belgium’s parliamentary leaders, and in this capital of a war-impoverished land. Newspapers announced the arriv al here of the grand marshal of Leopold's court, Count De Ways Raurt, and said he brought a list of important personalities" the King dehired to speak with at Salzburg. o July 4th Closing Being Discussed By Merchants Here July 4, comes on Wednesday this year and in accordance with custom many, if not all, Roxboro mercan tile and business houses are ex pected to close, according to W. Wallace Woods, Roxboro Chamber of Commerce secretary, who said today that he is mailing out to merchants cards of Inquiry as to | their plans for closing and that | absence of replies will constitute a vote for closing for the holiday. Wednesdays, it was pointed out by Mr, Woods, are customary half holiday closing dates during Sum mer months. So far as is known, unless the Les ter Blackwell Post, American Le gion, plans its Gold Star program for that date, there will be no ttpecial program in Roxboro on July 4tli. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Special Appeal Issued Today By Hunter And Committee. E Bond purchases of the Seventh War Loan as of today in Person County have reached a total of $203,- 000.00 against a quota of $248,000.00 according to Gordon c. Hunter, dis trict chairman. This leaves a total of $45,000.00 that is to be bought in Person county. In a percentage fig ure this means that Person county has gone a little over 81 per cent of the total for E bonds. Deadlines for war bond purchases that will count in the Seventh Loan is July 4th. In commenting on the Person County drive Mr. Hunter and the War Loan Committee had the fol lowing to say, a special appeal to Person residents: “These boys raised their VIC TORY FLAG on Iwo Jima at a to tal cost of 20,016 casualties. It cost us 36,588 casualties to take Okinawa, another small island. It is another story of supreme ef fort—of the invincible courage which make men dare to achieve great ob jectives. "Person County has never failed in our War effort. We have made every Goal given us, but we are about to fail in our E Bond Quota in the Seventh War Bond Drive. Our Qhota is $248,000,00, the larg est we have ever had. We have sold $203,000.00. We have seen little chil dren open their 'piggy-banks'' and buy bonds with every penny. In many cases, their Daddys are fight ing somewhere “over there.” “Many people have done without j things they needed to buy an Extra Bond. So, if we get this extra $45.- 000.00 in Bonds to meet our Quota, i we Triflst'sell to people who already 1 have the money. ■ "There is no sacrifice in buying ! the best investment in the world; ! that after 60 days is a demand note on the Treasurer of the United States, with exactly the same back ing that the money in your pocket | has; and the bonds do pay interest ; and can be replaced if lost by theft, 'fire, or destroyed in any other man iner. Our brave fighting boys have made United States War Bonds the | safest investment in tire world. We Must Not and Can Not Let I Them Down. The Peoples Bank has agreed to i pay interest on all Savings Accounts |up to July Ist, if used to purchase I War Bonds." o Highway And Safety Units Under One Head j | -...■ - Hudcins In Roxboro Comes Under Ruling Announced Sunday. Carrying out in part a recom mendation he made in his inaugural address, but which never was acted upon by the 1945 legislature, Gov ernor Cherry has consolidated the state highway patrol and safety div isions under a single head, and left the other state police agencies in tact. Only person in Roxboro affected by the change is State Highway Pa trolman John Hudgins, who has al ready been helping local law-en forcement officers when possible. I Cherry named Chief of Police Walter F. Anderson, of Charlotte, to head the consolidated patrol and safety division, and renamed T. Bod die Ward as commissioner of the de partment of motor vehicles. Ander son's salary will be set by the ad visory budget commission* The consolidation thus achieved in part a proposal outlined by Cher ry in both his campaign and inaug ural speeches, in which he recom mended that the legislature create a department of state police and public safety, embracing the pres ent highway patrol and safety div isions, bureau of investigation, driv ers' license bureau, fingerprint bu reau of the state prison system, and possibly other agencies. o IN PACIFIC David A. Torian, steward’s mate, second class, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Torian, Route 1; Hurdle Mills, is serving aboard the Canier USS Hancock in the Western Paci fic. ®he CourifD®imf? Summer Has Started Whether you knew it or not sum mer officially started on Friday, June 22nd. All of this hot weather that we have been having has been spring weather according to wha; the calendar says. That being true, and who can deny the calendar, wc are now in for some hot weath er. Whether we are in for a lot of rain or not this writer does not know. Last Friday was also the longest day of the year from a standpoint of daylight and you can now watch the sun go down a little earlier each day than It did last Friday. Wc are therefore in for three months of summer with less and less daytime tc do business in. o S. T. Clayton, Os Uton, Idaho, Dies After Short Illness Person Native Dies. Was Member Os Mormon Church. Samuel T. Clayton, of Ucon, Ida ho, a native of Person County, died June 15, in a hospital at Idaho Falls, Idaho, according to a message re ceived here today. He was about sev enty years of age and was a son of the late W. M. and Emily Morris Clayton, of Mill Creek. He had been in ill health for three or four years. In Person County and afterwards in the west he was regarded as a successful farmer. He was an active member of the Church of Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) and the Bishop of his church was at his bedside when death claimed him. Survivors include, his wife, Mrs. Nola Slaughter Clayton, of the home; three sons, Hansford, of Blackfoot, Idaho, Harold, with the U. S. Army, in Austria, and Jack, also in the Army, at Camp Maxie, Texas; three daughters, Mrs. Chris tine C. Clayton and Mrs. Murle Nicolai-, both of Fresno, Calif., and Mrs. Jaunita Banks, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Also surviving are four brothers, R. W. Clayton, of Jackson Springs, Thomas H. Clayton, of Ucon, Idaho; E. H. Clayton, of Grand Island, Neb., and L. H. Clayton, of Bakersville, Calif., and three sisters, Mrs. Hassie L. Regan, of Raleigh; Mrs. Charles Williamson, of Milton, and Mrs. L. T. Strum, of Richmond, Va. Mr. Clayton visited Roxboro a few I years ago and frequently sent open j forum letters and other communica tions to newspapers here. o Rev. C. E. Stevens To Preach Here Rev. C. E. Stevens, of Mount Gi lead, will conduct the annual evangelistic services at Rock Grove Baptist church, beginning on Sun day. July 1. according to the pastor, the Rev. Joe B. Curtin. The Rev. Mr. Stevens will begin preaching on | Monday night, July 2, with services j each night at eight o'clock. Regular | Sunday services will be in charge of I the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Currin. —O— Masons Meet Person Lodge No. 112, A. F. and A. M„ will meet In regular com munication Tuesday night at eight o'clock in the Lodge Hall. All lo cal, visiting brethren are cordially invited, according to J. W. Green, worshipful master, and C. C. Gar rett, secretary. o— Commissioners Os City Will Meet City commissioners will meet Wednesday in an extra session for further consideration of budget matters. Tentative tax rate has not been officially set, but is ex pected to remain at the present rate of $1.35. Matter of re-election or appointment of city officials may not come up ufitll the July ses sion. Prayer Services On Wednesday evening at 8:30. June 27th, at Mrs. Lillie Hubbard's home Prayer Service will be held for Theresa Baptist Church mem bers. Prayer service will be held at 8 o'clock at Mitchell's Chapel Baptist Church, on Wednesday night, June 27th. Two German Guns Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Hodgins, of 682 Lee st. Danville. Va., have two German made guna sent to Mrs. Hodgins by her brother, Pfc. How ard S. Mansfield. One is a double barrel shot gun with a third barrel for bullets, and the other one is a .22 rifle single shot. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Lower Line Church Gathering To Start This Week-End i !Flem D. I,onir of Roxboro. To | Preside At Stories Creek. Annual meeting of the Lower Country Line association of the Primitive Baptist church will begin Saturday morning at eleven o’clock at Stories Creek church, near the Person County Home, and will continue for three days, it was re pealed this morning by O. Y. Clay ! ton, of Roxboro, prominent lay j leader in the Primitive Baptist | church, who says that extensive: i 1 (reparations are being made to • handle large crowds. ! To preside as moderator is Flem i D. Long, of Roxboro, w-ho has held I the position lor many years, and | clerk is J. J. Whitley, of Durham, i Pastor of the hostess church is Eld !or N. D. Teasley, also of Durham. | Moderator Long, who has seived i in that capacity for seventeen years, | said today that electric lights are I being erected on camping grounds ' near the church and that hignest I peak in attendance is expected to jbe reached on Sunday. Many i members and their families bring j tents and camp during the three • days of the session and during pre war sessions attendance has reach ed as high as seven to eight thou sand or more, 1 j Introductory sermon wilt be preached by Elder Teasley, whose church at Stories Crceek is said to be between eighty and one hundred | years old. This has reference to | the church as an institution, of course. The Lower Country Line association itself dates back to 1800. Ministers from all part of 1 North Carolina and from Virginia land New York arc expected, accord- 1 ins to Mr. Long, who does not ex pect ODT travel or convention te strictions to interfere with the pro- ( gram, although attendance may be , curtailed somewhat. j. Dinners will be served on the ' 1 grounds, according to custom. < ( New FSA Home i Director Arrives , Miss Nettie L. Day, of Oxford, i a native of Granville County and formerly a teacher in the public schools, has come to Rox- | boro to take the position of home j supervisor with the Person unit I of the Farm Security Adminis- j tration, it was announced today 1 ( by J. Y. Blanks, director. Ij Miss Day, who began her work here this morning, succeeds the I late Mrs. Florence Jeffress Hamil j ton. who died several months ago. Miss Day has residence with Mrs. H. M. Beam, Lamar Street. 1 She was for four years a teach er. her position this past year having been in Perquimans coun ty. o— Minister Compares i Space Given Over j To Christian Church j C 1 c Guest speaker Thursday at Rox- j boro Rotary Club at Hotel Roxboro I I for program chairman, the Rev. I Daniel Lane, was the Rev. Millard C. Dunn, Methodist minister, of Dur- i ham. who drew interesting compar isons between the amount of space I ' in the Encyclopedia Brittanica de voted to Christ and Christianity and to leaders of other religions. He em phasized his points by citing the l amount of space devoted to certain c secular leaders, also, and showed s that Christ and the Christian c church has, proportionately far more c space than all other religions com- J bined. Special guests included Thomas R \ Bennett, and Sgt. Harvey Long. The a Rev. Mr. Dunn has been here hold-!p ing a revival for the Rev. Mr. Lane, i; o Before the Jay Treaty of 1794. the United States always refused, l to surrender fugitive criminals t - /Uosuf Way ■ Lt. E. G. Thompson, formerly of this city, now of Washington, D. C.. Coleman King and Captain Bobby Michaels of Roxboro, left here Thursday of last week for Washington. They planned to spend several days at the summer estate of Mr. William Thomas also formerly of this city, who has a nice place on the Chesapeake Bay near Washington. Now all of that is fine, but they did something else. They took Pies Hunt, local colored boy with them to serve as valet, Mr. Thomas is short of help at his home gnd his guests required the very best of attention so they carried Hunt. The same said Hunt will not have much to do except to get up fairly early and cook breakfast and then serve it to them in bed. Then he will be supposed to clean the house and mgße the beds and get lunch ready. After that he will have a. little while off and then pre pare supper and lay out their clotnfes for the evening. In other words he will be on hand to attend to their every need as these gentlemen of leisure enjoy the Messing of a summer resort. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Airline Hearings Brought To End 26 Applicants for Permits File During During CAB Ses sions at Sedgefield. Greensboro, June 25.—The type ; and extent of air transportation ser vice which will be provided the en tire Southeastern section of the United States for all time to come are questions which rested Saturday with the Civil Aeronautics Board as it closed its month-long hearing on applications for new air routes blanketing these states. CAB Examiners Ross I. Newmann and Curtis C. Henderson of Wash ington, who have been conducting the hearing at Sedgefield since May 28, adjourned the “Southeastern States” proceeding upon completion of testimony on behalf of Tri-State Airways of Shreveport, La. Now the examiners will return to Washington and begin the extremely heavy task of studying the transcrib ed testimony given on behalf of each of the 26 applicants, then drafting their reports and recommendations and filing them with the Civil Aero nautics Board. It has been estimated that possi bly by October, but probably later, the board will be ready to summon to Washington the attorneys repre senting the various applicants and hear them on their final arguments concerning their respective applica tions. Although probably anybody's guess, it has been estimated that by late spring or early summer of next I .• tar the board will be in a position to announce which of the appli cants and which of their proposed air routes have been approved for certification. I Examiner Henderson left for Washington tonight. Examiner New mann plans to remain over until Sunday. AngeMne Harris of Rutherfordton. (f'Hp had originally filed an applica tion to serve a group of about 25 Cities and towns in the Eastern and western sections of North Carolina, formally withdrew her proposal to day shortly before the hearing was Adjourned. Withdrawal of her application was permitted by the examiners without prejudice to her right to file in some other regional hearing. She explain ed that the engineers and others who would have been her chief witnesses are in the armed forces and pres ently unavailable. ; The Sedgefield hearing was the ( seventh regional air lines proceed ing to be held by the CAB in the United States. During its four weeks it was attended by many men of outstanding rank in the aviation in dustry. as well as by a number of distinguished legal representatives, i Df. N. Y. Gulley Dies At Home i i ■ i Wake Forest, June 25.—Dr. Need- • ham Y. Gulley, founder and dean' emeritus of the Wake Forest law school, died at his home here Sun-1 day after a brief illness. He had ( celebrated his 90th birthday on j June 3. The funeral will be held at the Wake Forest Baptist church at 11 a. m. Tuesday. Rev. Eugene E. Olive, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the Wake Forest cemetery. o j Within the boundaries of the! United States are located half of the world’s known coal deposits. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Mount Tirzah To Have Revival Soon A revival will begin at Mount Tir zah Methodist church Wednesday, night, June 27. Rev. Kenneth Thom- ; as, of Dallas, Texas will preach. The song service will be in charge of the pastor. The evening services will be gin at 8:30. Third Quarterly Conference cf the Mount Tirzah Charge elected the if blowing persons members of the (building committee of the Mt. Zion I Methodist Church: Paul Cobb. Far- J ris Hamlin, John Blackard, Robert ! Foushee, and Mrs Dewey Jones. Pastor of the Mount Tirzah Charge is the Rev. Floyd G. Vil i lines. Jr., who extends a cordial in-. vitation to the public to attend the |revival service. Hiller's House i Given Once-Over By Person Man Member of the famous “Bmck- Hawks" of the U. S. Army, who were late in getting to Europe, but made up in speed when they landed, is Pfc. R. D. “Little-Boy'' Salley, of Roxboro, who, with some five hun dred other North and South Caro | lina soldiers from overseas, came' 1 home to Fort Bragg and then scat tered to their various homes to spend thirty-day leaves before being j re-assigned for Pacific duty. Pfc. Salley says his group docked j at Le Havre, France. March 1, after j having sailed from Boston in Feb-i i ruarv. Then followed three weeks j of pre-front-line training, at Camp j Old Gold, in France, before the boys I ; began their swift advance across j. France and Belgium and into Ger- j j many and Austria, . which found | ! them in Kirchberg by V-E Day and led up to what was, perhaps, Pfc, j Salley's most exciting side-trip ad ! venture, a first hand inspection of j the remains of Hitler's famous Ber- \ ; chesgaden home. j Accomplices in this trip were two of Pfc. Salley's friends, Lt. “Mai- j lard" (He quacks back) Drake, arid! Tech. Sgt. "Pappy" Long, who took j a jeep and ran off with it (stole it |or appropriated it. if you want it that way) to Berchesgaden, some •Sped miles away. There they saw | Hitler's house, or rather the remains ! •Os it. a brick structure, modern in i ! design, with holes for what had been ! • expansive windows. About eight ! rooms, including Herr Schicklegrub i er's bedroom and the great confer-j 1 jencc chamber, were more or less jn j tact, says Salley,, who adds that at least that many more rooms were all but destroyed. The grounds of Berchesgaden, ac- j cording to Salley, were the most j beautiful he saw in Europe, with j beautiful gardens and, plantings of" j shrubbery, and underneath the j j house itselfwere wonderfully well I constructed bomb-proof air raid i shelters. At the time the boys made their trip, so soon after V-E Day, l they were not supposed to leave I their units, nor were they supposed to be allowed to see into Burches- . gaden once they got there, but they ; did see it. and when they returned ; jto Kirchberg they were quickly for j given. | Munich was pretty, too, what was j | left of it, and so was Hedelberg, seat i iof the famous university, although j ! many of its buildings were likewise ! (damaged. Remembered as a pleas-! (ant place to stay was Lambertheim, J ton the road to Munich and Augs | burg. Salsburg and Vienna, Austria, | were wonderful, too, and then back across Europe in double-quick time, with a brief stop at Camp Old Gold (before sailing for the U, S. A. on the : I Tasker H. Bliss, June Bth. | Speaking of general impressions, Pfc. Salley, who has been in the Army a little over two years, is ' quite sincere in saying that the men he has known are more deeply ap- I preciative of religion and not in- 1 clincd to draw denominational bar- ( (riers. They had good times while in Europe, of course, and can still re- ! members flocks of German girls in the Rhine area who drove out on bikes to look at the Americans. There were quiet days, and tough, rough . ones. . .. and Japan is ahead now that they have come back, but the ;' most wonderful thing of all right , now is being at home in Roxboro. Pfc. Salley, incidentally, looks the j' same as he did when he left Rox- | : boro shortly after Christmas, only . more serious, but that can be ex- j plained by the fact that he was | wounded. He has the blue Infantry- ] man s Badge and of course, the Pur ple Heart, and his southern speech | is a bit more clipped and clear—but ] that is all that makes him different, i except his new and brighter outlook —a rather positive contribution. : o ! Chile’s production of iron ore is i the largest in Latin America. I < Oxygen Tent Will Be Purchased Soon For City Hospital I Benefit Dante For Project To Be Given Friday. Roxboro Exchange club is plan- j nine to buy . and to give to Com-j nvunity hospital here an oxygen tent it was revealed today by club offi cials. It is understood, however, that the tent will be transferred to the | proposed War Memorial hospital, if i and when that building is erected, the transfer to be made on assump tiin that Community hospital will close whenever the larger institution is able to function. Planned as an aid in fund-gath ering to purchase the oxygen tent is j a benefit dance which will be spon sored here on Friday night, June 29. ■ in Roxboro high school gymnasium in cooperation with members of the Durham club. Dancing will be from I nine o'clock that night to one A. M.,' with music by Jimmy Fuller's twelve j piece orchestra from Durham. Committee chairman for the dance j program is Arthur H. Runnier, who j is being assisted by V. A. Thomas, j T. A. Clayton, L. Roy Jones and ; Huck SansbUry. The dance will be | j informal. Members of: the club, of j which J. H. Lewis, is president, will j j have tickets for sale and it is hoped | i that attendance will be large. [ Oxygen tents are valuable in sav | ing lives in severe illnesses but none ( I. have been available here. The Exchange Club, formed here j about two months ago, is also inter- j | ested in work with crippled children.! Sgt. J. W. Jacobs | Home From Nazi Prison Camp . ■ (. Sgt. John W, Jacobs, 23. son of j j Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Jacobs, of Rox- j boro and Longhurst, for four months j a prisoner of war in Germany, re-} turned to his home here Saturday | night after having been sent to Fort Bragg on his arrival in the United j : States. I Sgt. Jacobs, overseas about ten! months, was wounded in action and i has the Purple Heart, together with! the Infantryman's Combat badge.; Tall and blond, with a neatly ( trimmed mustache which he grew while in a Nazi prison camp, Sgt. | Jacobs was with Liggett and Myers.! j Tobacco company, Durham, before jhe went into service. Last camp in Germany in which! lie was held was at Hammelburg, j j according to Sgt.. Jacobs, who says | that food conditions there were bad, that he lost fifty pounds in weight i Continued on page eight) j 0 ) ■■ •: | Gov. Cherry Cuts Into Ranks Os J Special Judges i ■;. •••'.. ... ■■ ■ . j Raleigh, June 25.—Declaring he. I “couldn’t see any necessity for so j many judges during wartime," Gov-j i ernor Cherry on Saturday reduced, the number of special Superior ■ judges from six to three, and ap* , ( pointed two to serve in the east and one for emergency duty in the west. Reappointed for two year terms (were Judges W. H. S. Burvv vn. i of Woodland and Luther Hamilton, of Morehead City, both of whom • will serve in the eastern judicial district, and Hubert E. Olive, of! Davidson, whose activities will be confined to the west. The redaction c>it loose from the state's pay roll Special Judges Richard D. Dixon, of Edenton; Jeff D. Johnson of Clinte.i, arid j J C. Rudisill, of Newton, all of whom had been appointed for two year terms by former Governor jJ. M. Broughton. Two inhere, A. ! Hoyle Johnson and W. H. Clack stock, who received appointments from Broughton, died before their terms expired and were not re placed. Cherry thus reduced by more than half the potential eight judges he could have appointed under I terms of a 1941 legislative act which : allowed the appointment of two special judges each for the eastern and western sections of the state, with four'others authorized in the I event they were needed. 1 Fatal Highway Accident IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945 DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 59 Brake Tests In Roxboro Now Completed Chief of Police G. c. Robinson stated last week that the police of Roxboro had completed a brake test in this city and that of the 390 cars that were checked about 150 had brakes that needed attention. In making the tests a block of wood one inch thick was placed un der the brake pedal. The pedal was mashed down and if it did not. start ( taking hold. by. the time it hit the | wood the brakes' on the car were said to be in need of repair, i The Roxboro police stated that (this did not absolutely mean that j the car had bad brakes but that the | brakes were not as good as they ! should be. No drivers were indicted j but those whose cars did not meas !ure up to the test were told that I they should have the brakes looked after. j The campaign was state wide, and lasted for six weeks. Officials of • state claim that the campaign had |beneficial results.. — — ' ■ Chance Seen To Have Better OPA Weed Ceilings ___ , Unnamed OPA Official Speaks Fol>r?r Seeks Security. \ Washington. June 25.—Recom jmeridations for this season’s flue ciired tobacco maximum seasonal average prices were forwarded by | the Office of Price Administration today to the War Food Administra ! tion for approval, according to a j disclosure made by an OPA official i who said that publication of this I year's ceiling prices on the weed : would be made within two weeks. Although the OPA official Would j not divulge what the seasonal aver • age price would be this year, ho i did seem confident that “everyone will be satisfied with the price inis : year.” In an effort to get a definite commitment out of the official, this i correspondent asked him if the $2 tolerance provision per hundred weight would be included in the ! price program. The official an -(swered promptly that this amount (“had been considered," but amend ed his remark by stating “of course we aren't saying it was recom mended." It will take the OPA price recom mendations about a week to go to i war food and return to the OPA, land another week for the regula tions to be printed and distributed, but a newspaper release on the to bacco program will be made public (before that time, the OPA official ! said. J In the barely successful effort to j defeat the Thomas amendment in I the senate, there were concessions •to the livestock and textile inter ests. In the house Representative | Folder sponsored an amendment dc | signed to effect a change in OPA policies that hitherto resulted in price ceilings on an industry-wide basis, instead of establishing prices on occasion on groups or units in an industry turning out a variety of products. Members opposed said this was an effort to guarantee prof ! its to every branch of business in the land. The North Carolina mem ber declared in reply that his amendment did not guarantee any thing to anybody, that object of his amendment was to give every busi ness a chance to live, to realize a fair profit and that fair and rea* (Continued on page eight) Baptismal Rites Planned Sunday On Sunday, July Ist at 10:30 a. in., candidates for baptism from Theresa and Mitchell’s Chapel Bap tist Churches will be administered the ordinance by Rev. B. B. Knight, pastor of the churches. The Rev. Mr. Knight is desiriou* that every member of Theresa and Mitchell's Chapel attend the ser- * vice, which will be held at Chuß Lake.
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